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If you use Youtube enough to be wanting to pay 1-5/month then they could make more than that by displaying ads to you. Freemium+Ad models are sometimes more pro
by nivla 14y ago
If you use Youtube enough to be wanting to pay 1-5/month then they could make more than that by displaying ads to you. Freemium+Ad models are sometimes more profitable than subscription based models and in some cases you may find a mix of both (eg: Hulu Plus).
- olalonde 14y agoI strongly doubt that. In 2011, Youtube had a trillion views and revenues of about 1 billion$. That's 0.001$/view. You'd have to watch 5000 videos/month to be worth 5$.
- nivla 14y agoKeep in mind [one page view != one ad view]. If you refresh the same video more than once, it does not keep repeating the advert. There is also a limit to the max number of adverts shown per session to a user. Moreover not all videos have ads and not all ads are shown to all users. There is no point in showing an ad for home-depot to your European demographic, likewise there is no point in wasting ad bandwidth on a 150 view home-video.